Sat.Apr 03, 2010 - Fri.Apr 09, 2010

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Customers don’t care about Channels

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Let’s face it at this point social media has gone mainstream. Customers are not only surfing the web looking for information but more and more they are relying on social media to get their information. Your customers can seamlessly move from web to social to call center to your front door. But do you treat them the same in each channel? Do the owners of each channel interact with each other?

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5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success

Everything Technology Marketing

By Holger Schulze Major shifts are taking place in B2B marketing that started a few years ago but have accelerated in recent months – in the marketplace as well as inside vendor organizations. Prospects and customers are becoming more sophisticated and better informed than ever before. They are tuning out a lot of the marketing noise they receive which makes it harder for marketers to reach audiences the old fashioned way.

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Wake up and Send More Email

Anything Goes Marketing

Social media is all the rage these days and I’m in complete agreement that it should be part of your campaigns but let’s not overlook the power of email and how it’s being underutilized by many organizations today. From conversations that I have with marketers I sometimes sense this feeling of anxiety when I recommend that they should increase the frequency of emails that are sent to their opted-in database.

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Best Interactive PR Articles and Blog Posts of 2009

Webbiquity

Interactive PR, sometimes called social PR, is a combination of search-optimizing press releases, creating social media releases through tools like PitchEngine , blogger outreach and the use of social media to promote company news and announcements. Though the ability to distribute press releases online has been around for more than a decade, it’s only in the last few years that tools and techniques for combining PR with social media have really emerged, and they continue to evolve.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Could Facebook become a Lead Nurturing platform?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

When you think of lead nurturing platforms you typically think of firms like Eloqua, Marketo, Aprimo, LeadLife, Market2Lead, Silverpop, even Salesforce.com is getting into the lead nurturing space. But Facebook? Lead nurturing starts by taking many touch points and pulling them all together into one spot so you can see patterns of activity across your customer base and get a true profile of what they are doing.

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Interviews Part 1: Are you interviewing or just chatting?

WriteSpark

When you are interviewing a customer, are you really getting the information you need or are you just shooting the breeze? Of course you want to establish rapport with customers during an interview for a case study or other marketing project. And you want customers to feel comfortable in sharing their feedback or information for publication. But sometimes small talk and an informal conversational style can take the interview off-track, where you are just chatting, not getting the most useful ans

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Best Search Engine Marketing Tips of 2009, Part 2

Webbiquity

While more than 80% of companies now use paid search in some form (primarily AdWords), many of these programs are under-optimized and not delivering the results they could be. How can search marketers use techniques like testing and keyword match types to improve results? How important are branded terms in paid search? Does PPC advertising help with branding?

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How to establish a voice of authority in a blog

Chris Koch

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how to get others to blog. But it’s not enough just to support bloggers. For them to be successful, we need to help them establish their voices in a blog. The way that we establish trust and relationships with buyers is through authority. We want readers of our SMEs’ blogs to see them as experts. But you can’t establish that authority by putting a link to their LinkedIn profile on the blog.

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A Simple Technique for Reducing Bounces & Unsubscribes

The Point

It used to be said that the average US business mailing address (snail mail) changes once every 9 months. That’s individuals moving, not companies. Fast-forward to today’s highly mobile workforce, where people change jobs like the proverbial underwear, throw in a volatile economy, and more than one-third of the email addresses in your marketing database could change each and every year*.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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How to Make your Content Work Harder for You?

Ambal's Amusings

I have invited Bett Hrusch to discuss about Repurposing Content. Beth is Senior Editor at Interact Media , a content marketing software company. Read on to get Beth's insights on how to creatively repurpose your content. Did you know that you are creating content for your business on a daily basis? Every time you write a memo, post a blog, record a workshop, or put together a PowerPoint presentation, you’re creating useful content.

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Lead scoring thoughts to share

markempa

Recently, I've been having more conversations with marketers about what is lead scoring and how they can use it as a part of the overall lead qualification and nurturing process. The question "what is lead scoring?" also came up during the "Broad Reach + Intelligent Lead Nurturing = Increased Revenue" webinar. I participated in yesterday with Scott Mersy of Genius.com , Andrew.

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How UPS Thinks Like Their Customers For Content Marketing

Tony Zambito

Image via Wikipedia. Some companies just get it.   UPS does.   You see, it can be amazingly simple and yet it is the blinding obvious.   Gaining insight into how customers and buyers think gives you the ability to tone down the brightness and see what is on their minds.   Often, not articulated directly but yet it is just right there for you to grab.   In the case of buyer persona development, it may take a good number of qualitative interviews to get to it.  

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Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps | Blogging and.

Convince & Convert

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps April 6th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Sure, social media takes a lot of time, but probably not as much time as you think.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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New Buying Paradigm Not So New for High Tech Marketing

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. When I first read Geoffery Moore’s Crossing the Chasm in the early 1990s, I was amazed at how well the author, then a partner at Regis McKenna, Inc. , nailed what worked and what didn’t work in technology marketing. What is even more amazing to me is that the book is still highly relevant for high tech marketing today; in fact, I believe it was a harbinger of today’s “new” buying paradigm that is made possible through social networking.

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11 Ways the iPad can be used for B2B Marketing (aka a list of App Store apps all B2B Marketers should be using)

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Iphone Apps for B2B Marketing. Recently on LinkedIn the American Marketing Association posted a question about how Apple’s new iPad can be useful for B2B marketers. There were a lot of negative comments, saying there will be no use or impact. I disagree. . I think the iPad will have a big impact on B2B marketing. In some ways I think it will be similar to the impact of a Smartphone, but in other ways it will be much better.

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@chrisbrogan's New Marketing Experience, aka Inbound Marketing Summit: 5 Tips

Smashmouth Marketing

Next week I'll be speaking at Chris Brogan's New Marketing Experience in San Francisco. In a recent post, @chrisbrogan talks about the event: " One thing that’s different with my events than with other events: Every sponsor and exhibitor and speaker is someone we think has something to offer you. We appreciate their voice in our experiences. Thus, time spent with them is also time spent learning new marketing the way we see it. it’s a 1-day event.

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B2B Sales, Marketing … and STEM Education?

ViewPoint

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5 Inspiring B2B Marketing Campaigns to Take Yours to the Next Level

Your next big B2B marketing idea starts here. Get inspired with these five successful B2B marketing campaigns. Ready to generate more leads, interest, and revenue with your B2B marketing? In this comprehensive eBook, you’ll get: In-depth studies of five successful B2B marketing campaigns spanning a wide range of industries Key takeaways and lessons from each story to implement in your own strategy Resources to help your own B2B marketing thrive By submitting this form, you agree to have your con

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45 Astonishing Examples of Long Exposure Photography

JotForm

Today we bring you an enticing article about long exposure photography. Long exposure photography is a technique in which a camera’s shutter is left open to expose over a longer period of time (be it 8 seconds or 8 hours). It is quite famous, trendy and somewhat difficult form of photography that a.

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Caveat Emptor, if you’re using social media

Wondering Out Loud

A friend of a friend asked me if I knew anything about a particular social media organization. Now, considering one cannot swing a dead marketer without hitting an association, or society, or foundation, or professional organization that brings social media practitioners together I didn’t consider it unusual that I would not have heard of the one in question.

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5 Tips For @chrisbrogan's New Marketing Experience, aka: Inbound Marketing Summit

Smashmouth Marketing

Next week I'll be speaking at Chris Brogan's New Marketing Experience in San Francisco. In a recent post, @chrisbrogan talks about the event: " One thing that’s different with my events than with other events: Every sponsor and exhibitor and speaker is someone we think has something to offer you. We appreciate their voice in our experiences. Thus, time spent with them is also time spent learning new marketing the way we see it. it’s a 1-day event.

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Webinar Leads Demystified: Maximize your webinar results!

ViewPoint

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The AI-Enabled CMO: Practical Tips for Today's B2B Marketers

Speaker: Paul Slack, Vende Digital CEO

On October 11th, understand how to navigate the AI landscape confidently, turning insights into groundbreaking strategies that set you apart. Why attend? You'll learn: Practical applications/Use cases How to find and assess the right AI technology Prioritizing quick wins Mastering prompt engineering Solving marketing challenges efficiently Strategies to launch pilot programs Case studies of B2Bs building smarter businesses with AI Exclusive bonus content: Actionable frameworks to get started qui

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Serif Fonts and Their Peculiarities

JotForm

Typography obviously belongs to the cohort of the fine arts, where even the smallest details and elements are meaningful and can influence the overall perception of the final creation, whether it is a picture or a text, printed with a particular typeface. In terms of fonts design, serifs are those t.

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HP legacy upgrade campaign features Alinean TCO sales tools

The ROI Guy

The market for enterprise servers is fierce, and with IT savings goals top of mind and the recent purchase of SUN by Oracle, many organizations are proactively developing strategies to modernization / consolidate legacy solutions. In a recent press announcement, HP announced that the number of global companies replacing Sun and IBM systems with more flexible HP solutions offering a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) is rising.

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Deciding when your B2B should use SEO …or SMO …or PPC

EMagine B2B Blog

We’ve blogged several times before on the perception that there’s some sort of forced choice between search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click advertising (PPC) – see for example “Why do I need both SEO and PPC?” – and of course we’ve always debunked the premise, and have urged B2Bs to do both whenever [.]. Tags: B2B Web Strategy Search Engine Marketing.

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Want to Insert Ads Into Your iPad-Enabled, HTML5 Videos? There’s a Service for That

readwrite

mDialog , a four-year-old Canadian-based video platform company, is announcing the launch of their new Apple-focused service, an “ HTML5 adaptive video streaming service with dynamic ad-insertion.” In a nutshell: it lets you stick ads into videos that work on the iPad and iPhone. The ads can be pre-roll, post-roll, mid-roll and precisely geo-targeted to fit an advertiser’s needs.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Basic search engine optimization in 5 quick steps

Brainrider

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a very complex, involved science. That’s why there are tons of firms that specialize in it. With that said, here are five basic things you should do to optimize your website for search. You’ll be pleasantly surprised how much your results will improve over a few months just by doing […]. The post Basic search engine optimization in 5 quick steps appeared first on Brainrider.

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

Convince & Convert

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search The Truth About the iPad April 8th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Are you old enough to remember when the TV remote control was invented?

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A few more hints on keyword discovery

EMagine B2B Blog

By now, everyone is pretty clear on the importance of keywords to both organic traffic generation and pay per click advertising. Most B2B marketers understand the critical importance of identifying terms that people actually use when searching for products or services like those your company offers; as well as the fatal trap of uncritically resorting [.].